History - The Crossing

British destroy colonial supplies at Concord but suffer heavy casualties on return to Boston

Lexington and Concord B

Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys capture forts that open invasion route to Canada

Crown point and Ticonderoga A

After three charges and heavy losses, the British force the Americans to retire fro the hill for lack of ammunition

Bunker Hill B

British General Howe forces Washington to abandon Brooklyn and escape to Manhattan

Long Island and New York B

Washington rallies his troops to turn defeat into victory as the British surrender in the college town

Princeton A

Washington attempts to surprise British General Howe but is defeated

Germantown B

British General Burgoyne surrenders his army to General Gates in the turning point of the war, leading to France's decision to enter the war as our ally

Saratoga A

General Lee disobeys Washington's orders, so that the British cannot be halted on their way to New York

Monmouth I

Aided by the French, General Clark overwhelms the British garrison

Vincennes A

Despite the French fleet in the harbor, the British defeat Pulaski's French and American forces

Savannah B

The British capture General Lincoln and 5,000 Americans

Charleston B

General Gates suffers the most crushing American defeat of the war

Camden B

American rebels turn the southern war around with a victory

King's Mountain A

General Morgan captures nine-tenths of the opposing British force

Cowpens A

Last major engagement of the war. Cornwallis surrenders his army to Washington and the French

Yorktown A

Colonel Peter Gansevoort repelled a British siege

Fort Stanwix

Wanted to cross Delaware river, attacked Trenton, won the battle

G dubs

Washington's right hand man, helped win Trenton

Alexander Hamilton

Guy responsible for the artillery and cannons, super fat

Henry Knox

Marblehead fisherman, lead the other marbles, saved colonists when escaping long island, got them across the icy Delaware river in decent time

John Glover

Sort of a doctor, worried about the sick

Hugh Mercer

Needs to look good, European style warfare, good at it as well, wore a heavy wig, always go to the meadow, didn't care about his peoples lives more than how he looked

Colonel Rall

Wanted to take over G dubs, believed he should've been the leader, hated G dubs' plan, was sent away by him, lost at Camden

Horatio Gates

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only

Taxation without actual representation

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures

Taxation without actual representation

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people

Intolerable acts

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands

Proclamation line

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries

Admiralty courts

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance

Townshend acts

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures

Townshend acts

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us

Townshend acts

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

Boston Massacre

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world

Tea act and navigation acts

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent

Taxation without actual representation

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury

Intolerable acts

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

Intolerable acts

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

Quebec act

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments

Intolerable acts

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever

Declaratory act

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us

Battles of Lexington and Concord

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people

Battles of Lexington and Concord

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of ta civilized nation

Hessians

Shot heard around the world

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Molly Pitcher, took over for her downed husband, after having been the water lady for the soldiers

Monmouth I